September 11, 2018
What if we have everything we need within us? What if we lack nothing? What if the world we really want is all there is and the world we see is really a distorted insane perception of the real world we want? Wholeness, completeness, peace and love are within our reach. They are right in front of us waiting for us to recognize them. The light of reality is within us and wanting us to let it shine brightly from our soul. The darkness in which we seem to be surrounded is merely an illusion – an incorrect interpretation of our reality. What will it take for us to be willing to release our attachment to what we think we see and allow something else to rise in its place? Our happiness relies on this willingness. Our peace of mind relies on this willingness. Stepping into the world already within us relies on this willingness. It is ours in an instant if we decide we want it enough to let all else go. The Course tells us:
Be willing, for an instant, to leave your altars free of what you placed upon them, and what is really there you cannot fail to see. The holy instant is not an instant of creation, but of recognition. For recognition comes of vision and suspended judgment. Then only it is possible to look within and see what must be there, plainly in sight, and wholly independent of inference and judgment. Undoing is not your task, but it is up to you to welcome it or not. Faith and desire go hand in hand, for everyone believes in what they want. T-21.II.8:1-6
In the holy instant we are transformed. Our mind awakes to the reality right before us. It is a holy instant because all unreality disappears for that instant and we have suspended judgement for just that instant. We have allowed vision to surface in our minds, enabling us to see clearly what is already there. No amount of effort, schooling or compromising will get us to this holy instant. Only a complete surrender of all our attachments to our own misperceptions we hold so dear. Do these misperceptions serve us at all? They only serve to keep us locked into a miserable pattern of misperceived judgements that keep us from recognizing the peaceable world within us.
We deny the real world within us by our wishful thinking that there is something outside us that will bring something better to us. This denial is so powerful it hides a peaceful and loving world from our minds. It is so powerful it blocks our holy vision, for we cannot see a false and a real world at the same time. We choose, then, what we see by where and with what we align our minds. Which thought system do you prefer? Rightmindedness – the Mind of Oneness, or wrongmindedness – the egoic thought system rooted in the belief in separation. What we believe we will see, right or wrong.
Yet the truth is you and your friend were both created by a loving Creator, Who created you together and as one. See what “proves” otherwise, and you deny your whole reality. But grant that everything that seems to stand between you and your friend, keeping you from each other and separate from your Creator, you made in secret, and the instant of release has come to you. All its effects are gone, because its source has been uncovered. It is its seeming independence of its source that keeps you prisoner. This is the same mistake as thinking you are independent of the Source by which you were created and have never left. T-21.II.13:7-6
Look at each other and allow yourself to see each other as the holy and complete Ones you already are. Don’t let their appearance in this world fool you. We are all really holy and we are all really One, joined in Oneness as we are created. Allow your holy vision to rise and be guided by your higher Spirit Self. Truth is within you. Allow your mind to recognize that truth and let it show you the way to the recognition of reality. It is not hard, though it may seem impossible right now. Start with just a little willingness to be shown a different way and see the world transformed before your very eyes. This little willingness is our responsibility. Say “yes” to it now.
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